Thread: Unique ways of controlling your robot (driving)
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Unread 07-04-2008, 14:40
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Re: Unique ways of controlling your robot (driving)
My favorite control setup is where you have a wheel and a throttle stick. The wheel controls turn radius not difference in power or something like that. The throttle stick is used to give the bot forward velocity. To deal with the fact that you can't do an in place turn that way, we have a button that you press to turn in place.

We currently implement this with motor power only, but I would like to implement it in using a PID controller. I just haven't been able to put good enough sensors on our bot to achieve that. Not enough resolution on the quadrature encoders.